Enterprise Application 摘要

Resources

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EnterpriseApplication.html

Abstraction

• a lot of persistent data
• data is accessed and manipulated concurrently
• a lot of user interface screens
• integrate with other enterprise applications.
• conceptual dissonance
• complex business "illogic"

Despite high levels of concurrency, many enterprise application developers don't think much about critical regions, race conditions and other elements of classic concurrent programming. Instead they build their thinking on top of transactions managed by databases or specialized transaction management tools.

Interesting

Even if you are building a brand new enterprise application, you don't do so in isolation. Instead you'll need to integrate with other enterprise applications. These systems are built by a wide range of teams, some from vendors who sell to many customers, others built internally just for your organization. These applications will have been written over many decades in a host of different technologies, some of which you'll have to ask your mother about. There are many integration mechanisms to deal with - file exchange, shared databases, messaging middleware. Every so often there will be an attempt to rationalize all this communication technology, but they never entirely succeed leaving behind more complexity in their wake.

Even when different applications access the same data there is considerable conceptual dissonance between them, a customer may mean something quite different to the sales organization than it does to technical support. The same sounding entity has different fields in different contexts, or worse have fields with the same name yet different meanings.

And then there's so-called "business logic". When you are writing an operating system you strive to keep the whole thing logical and stive to discover and implement simplifications to keep the software straightforward and reliable. But business rules are given to you as they stand, and if you want to change them you need sixty-seven meetings and three vice-presidents retiring. They are usually a haphazard array of strange conditions that interact in surprising ways. Their insanity derives from a good reason, each one is a case where salesman could close a particular deal by offerring some special one-off condition. Do this a thousand times and you have the complex business "illogic" that lies in the heart of many enterprise applications.

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